Valle de Lujua

At 6,172 gross tons, Valle de Lujua is the 41,638th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 6,167th by tonnage — larger than 5% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Spain is the country of registry for 720 vessels in this directory, of which Valle de Lujua is the 79th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (483 ships), and the median vessel measures 452 GT. Browse every ship flagged Spain.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 bulk carriers flying the Spain flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Valle de Lujua was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 663rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 133.4 m overall, Valle de Lujua is 56.6 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7385992 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.

Its IMO number, 7385992, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 = 172 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.